lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Iraq War

Iraqi men and women gather in a mass grave site as hundreds of bodies are pulled out of the earth and identified in the village of Abu Hajil, Iraq, some 50 miles south of Bagdad, May 16, 2003.  Since the fall of former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussain, dozens of mass graves sites have been identified and unearthed, revealing the tyraany of the former dictator's leadership.
Abu Hajil, Iraq

Iraqi men and women gather in a mass grave site as hundreds of bodies are pulled out of the earth and identified in the village of Abu Hajil, Iraq, some 50 miles south of Bagdad, May 16, 2003. Since the fall of former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussain, dozens of mass graves sites have been identified and unearthed, revealing the tyraany of the former dictator's leadership.